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Originally Posted by GGG
Utilitarianism
A persons statistical life is worth between 8-10 million.
So certainly for the average person you save the life of the bomber at let your 500k house blow up. Even if you discount the bombers life value by 90% because you believe he is a criminal his life value still outweighs the house value.
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Following this logic a little bit further, what if the home owner is a billionaire and the house is worth $100M (or any other number that is greater than the statistical value of a life of $8-10M)? Do we then get into a situation where the bomber's life is worth more than the property of a poor or middle class person but less than the property of a rich person? That logic has some very...uncomfortable implications.